Larry Haney — a retired teacher from Butler, Missouri
Eric Schwendeman — a bookseller from Columbus, Ohio
Laurie Genevro Cole — an adjunct professor and town council member from Vienna, Virginia (whose 1-day cash winnings total $19,000)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Laurie | $-600 | $1,000 | $6,200 |
$1
2nd place: $2,000 |
$6,200
12 R, 3 W |
| Eric | $1,600 | $5,600 | $14,000 |
$11,500
New champion: $11,500 |
$13,600
20 R (including 1 DD), 4 W |
| Larry | $2,300 | $5,100 | $-1,300 |
$-1,300
3rd place: $1,000 |
$7,200
17 R, 5 W (including 2 DDs) |
| OFFICIAL STATE STUFF | CLASSIC SITCOM EPISODES | U.S. NEWSPAPERS | THE CALENDAR | B.C. TIMES | "HAPPY" NEW YEAR |
|
$200
[1]
With this as its state beverage, there must be a lot of mustaches around Vermont
milk
Larry
|
$200
[8]
"Uncle Fester's Toupee"
The Addams Family
Eric
|
$200
[3]
The Oregonian is a Portland paper & the Tennessean is from this city
Nashville
Eric
|
$200
[13]
In "Marmion" Sir Walter Scott wrote that this month's "sky is chill and drear" & its "leaf is red and sear"
November
Eric
Larry
|
$200
[26]
He was about 45 when he invaded Britain in 55 B.C. & 50 when he conquered Gaul
Julius Caesar
Larry
|
$200
[21]
Early-evening period of reduced drink prices at the bar
happy hour
Laurie
|
|
$400
[2]
Wisconsin's state one of these is the muskellunge
fish
Laurie
Larry
|
$400
[9]
"Marcia Gets Creamed"
The Brady Bunch
Eric
|
$400
[4]
Name shared by the largest newspaper by circulation in Houston & San Francisco
the Chronicle
Eric
Larry
|
$400
[14]
The U.S. team almost arrived late to the 1896 Olympics because this host country still used the old style calendar
Greece
Larry
|
$400
[27]
In 1998 Egypt unveiled the results of its 10-year-long facelift on this landmark built around 2540 B.C.
the sphinx
Eric
|
$400
[22]
Title of Xaviera Hollander's 1972 bestseller
The Happy Hooker
Laurie
|
|
$600
[17]
South Carolina's state tree, it's also in the state's nickname
the palmetto
Larry
|
$600
[10]
"Goodnight, Seattle"
Frasier
Larry
|
$600
[5]
Tulsa has The World; Boston has this depiction of the world
the Globe
Eric
|
$600
[15]
Muslims began their calendar on the day Muhammad fled from Mecca to this city
Medina
Larry
|
$600
[28]
Of the few extant plays from the great ancient playwrights, 2 are about this sister of Orestes
Electra
Eric
|
$600
[23]
3-word name used by the white man for Native American heaven
the happy hunting grounds
Eric
|
|
$800
[18]
This "sagebrush state" made the sagebrush its state flower
Nevada
Eric
|
$800
[11]
"Granny Learns to Drive"
The Beverly Hillbillies
Eric
|
$800
[6]
If you're wondering, Cincinnati spells this newspaper with an "E"; Philadelphia does it with an "I"
the Enquirer
Laurie
|
$1,000
[20]
Number of days into the year on which you hit Groundhog Day
33
Laurie
Eric
|
$800
[29]
During the Third Punic War, Rome destroyed this city, killing many & enslaving 50,000
Carthage
Eric
|
$800
[24]
2-word title of the Turtles tune taken to the top in 1967
"Happy Together"
Eric
|
|
$1,000
[19]
Washington's song is "Washington My Home"; West Virginia's is a little longer: "West Virginia, Home" this
Sweet Home
Larry
|
$1,000
[12]
"A Father's Day for Mr. Wilson"
Dennis the Menace
Larry
|
$1,000
[7]
Fort Lauderdale has the Sun-Sentinel; Fort Worth has the this-Telegram
the Star-Telegram
Laurie
Larry
|
DD
$2,500
[16]
The Jewish calendar is now on the year 5765 counting from the date of this
the Creation
Larry
|
$1,000
[30]
We never "Tyre" of hearing about the seafarers with this Greek name whose major cities included Sidon & Byblos
the Phoenicians
Eric
|
$1,000
[25]
She was married to the 41st vice president of the U.S.
Happy Rockefeller
Larry
|
| FILMS OF THE '50s | SCULPTURE | A KNIGHT TO REMEMBER | HAMLET | TO B OR NOT TO B | "S"CIENCE |
|
$400
[1]
This James Dean film was advertised with the line "Teenage terror torn from today's headlines"
Rebel Without a Cause
Larry
|
$400
[16]
c. 1415 Donatello sculpted "St. George" & the relief under it, "St. George Slaying" this mythical beast
the dragon
Laurie
|
$400
[9]
One of the goals in the "Star Wars Galaxies" video game is to become one of these knights
a Jedi
Eric
|
$400
[2]
There would be one more corpse in the last scene if Hamlet didn't stop Horatio from doing this
drinking poison
Laurie
|
$400
[17]
Slang for liquor, or something thicker
booze or ooze
Laurie
|
$2,000
[27]
Seen here is the characteristic chain arrangement of these bacteria
streptococci
Laurie
Larry
|
|
$800
[3]
"You just can't imagine the thrill of shooting the curl", said this 1959 Sandra Dee character
Gidget
Laurie
|
$800
[22]
This famous statue of Aphrodite now in the Louvre was discovered on an island in the Aegean in 1820
the Venus de Milo
Laurie
|
$800
[12]
The full name of the crusading Knights Templar was "The Poor Fellow-soldiers of Christ and of" this man's "Temple"
Solomon
Eric
|
$800
[7]
Subject of the lines in the first scene,"'Tis here!""'Tis here!""'Tis gone!"
Hamlet's ghost
Eric
|
$800
[18]
To collide with, or a sports official you shouldn't do it to
bump or ump
Eric
|
DD
$6,000
[26]
A "super" theory in physics has everything made up of tiny these vibrating under immense tension
strings
Larry
|
|
$1,200
[4]
In this film Marilyn Monroe famously stepped on a subway grating in a billowy white dress
The Seven Year Itch
Laurie
|
$1,200
[23]
In this movement, which is French for "hobby horse", sculptures are made of such items as machine parts
Dadaism
|
$1,200
[13]
In this film classic, Max von Sydow is a knight who takes on death in a game of chess
The Seventh Seal
Laurie
|
$1,200
[8]
We bet the line about Hamlet being sent to this country whose "men are as mad as he" got laughs at the Globe
England
Larry
|
$1,200
[19]
Pleading with someone to do something, or urging him "on" to do it
begging or egging
Larry
|
— |
|
$1,600
[5]
Mean Ray Milland hires a hit man to kill his wife Grace Kelly in this Hitchcock classic
Dial M for Murder
Larry
|
$1,600
[24]
In 1937 this British sculptor said that he associated the openings in his hole-y works with caves
Henry Moore
Larry
|
$1,600
[14]
Hyphenated term for a man who wanders the countryside doing chivalric deeds
knight-errant
Eric
|
$1,600
[10]
The text in this 1623 volume includes possible ad libs by actors, like a sudden cry of "O, vengeance!"
the First Folio
|
DD
$2,000
[20]
A year-end sum of money you don't expect, or a burden you don't want
bonus or onus
Eric
|
— |
|
$2,000
[6]
Leslie Caron is the waif who captures Louis Jourdan's heart in this 1958 classic
Gigi
Eric
|
$2,000
[25]
A 1788 marble statue of George Washington sculpted by this Frenchman stands in Virginia's State Capitol building
Jean-Antoine Houdon
Larry
|
$2,000
[15]
This German knight & minstrel who died in 1270 is the title subject of an 1845 opera by Richard Wagner
Tannhäuser
Eric
|
$2,000
[11]
4-word quote that precedes & rhymes with "Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king"
The play's the thing
Laurie
|
$2,000
[21]
Soothing salves, or handouts that can be almost as pleasant
balms or alms
Eric
|
— |
Just days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, it became the first U.S. possession occupied by the Japanese
Guam